CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART ONE: DONEGAL'S OWN -- 1 The Real World -- 2 Mumming -- 3 Hard Roads -- 4 Rites of Passage -- PART TWO: NEW DIMENSIONS -- 5 I Blush to Remember -- 6 Prospecting -- 7 Hard Graft -- 8 Emancipation -- PART THREE: MY OWN MAN -- 9 Home and Hearth -- 10 Civic Sense -- 11 Gathering Force -- 12 The People's Choice -- 13 Loyalties -- PART FOUR: CHANGING FORTUNES -- 14 Lapses -- 15 Assay -- 16 Postscript -- A Note on Sources